Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 14

At five o'clock the Kangaroo sat with his tail "like a milking-stool behind him" and said "Thank goodness that's finished!"; Dingo, now "Tired-Dog Dingo" and "Poor Dog Dingo", sat down, hung out his tongue and howled, and wanted something for his tea.

Who acts: Kangaroo, Dingo · What happens: sit, say, thank, finish, sat down, hang out · To what, where: five o'clock, goodness, that, tongue, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kangaroo, Dingo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 o'clock	case
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 o'clock	nummod
3	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Kangaroo	det
5	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 tail	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tail	nmod:poss
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 stool	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	15 stool	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stool	det
13	milking	milking	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stool	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 milking	punct
15	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stool	nmod
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 stool	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Thank	punct
22	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
23	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Thank	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 finished	nsubj:pass
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 finished	aux:pass
26	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Thank	ccomp
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 Thank	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Thank	punct
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 Dingo	punct
30	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 sat	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Dingo	punct
32	now	now	ADV	_	37 Dingo	advmod
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 Dingo	punct
34	Tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Dog	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 Tired	punct
36	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Dingo	compound
37	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Dingo	appos
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 Dingo	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 Dingo	cc
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 Dingo	punct
41	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Dingo	amod
42	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 Dingo	compound
43	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Dingo	conj
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 Dingo	punct
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 sat	punct
46	sat	sat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	parataxis
47	down	down	ADP	_	46 sat	compound:prt
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 hung	punct
49	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
50	out	out	ADP	_	49 hung	compound:prt
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 tongue	nmod:poss
52	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 hung	obj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 howled	cc
54	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 hung	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 wanted	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 wanted	cc
57	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 howled	conj
58	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	57 wanted	obj
59	for	for	ADP	_	61 tea	case
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 tea	nmod:poss
61	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 something	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the Kangaroo		five o'clock	with Kangaroo's tail; like a milking stool behind bridge	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at o'clock=Location
2	say speech: express	past	the Kangaroo not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	thank speech: thank in a quote	present		goodness			tree rules
4	finish in a quote	present · passive		that			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
5	sat down	past	Dingo				tree rules
6	hang out	past	the Kangaroo not said here	bridge's tongue			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient
7	howl	past	the Kangaroo not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	want	past	the Kangaroo not said here	something		for bridge's tea	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.lesson:14.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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